Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., is one of the most influential teachers of our time in the field of personal and spiritual transformation. As a renowned author, speaker, and media personality, she helped popularize the self-help movement in the 1980s, and for over four decades has reached tens of millions of people with her inspirational messages about how to create a life of true freedom, mastery, and awakening. Dr. De Angelis has written 14 best-selling books that have sold over 10 million copies and been published in 25 languages, including four #1 New York Times bestsellers. She has starred in her own television shows on CNN, CBS, and PBS, and has been a frequent guest on Oprah, the Today show, and Good Morning America. Dr. De Angelis is one of only five women ever honored as one of the most outstanding speakers of the century by Toastmasters International. She credits her ability to articulate and transmit transformational wisdom to her serious spiritual practice and study from the age of 18, including many years spent in residence with several of the most renowned spiritual masters of our age.